The Stoop Story Archive contains the true, personal tales shared by thousands of everyday people on our stages since 2006. We’re proud of this amazing collection and invite you to listen, browse by topic or storyteller, check out past shows — and share, share, share.
Archive
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca Donnelly: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | A Holiday Live Radio Show The Stoop rings in the ha-ha-holidays with its biggest live radio show extravaganza ever, featuring old time comedy sketches and true personal tales of holiday | |
| Amy Greco: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Prank resulted in going home early and finding out her mother was having an affair | high school |
| Dave Minges: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Prank resulted in going home early and finding out her mother was having an affair | high school |
| Gabe Donnenberg: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Prank resulted in going home early and finding out her mother was having an affair | high school |
| Diane Macklin: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Prank resulted in going home early and finding out her mother was having an affair | high school |
| Robert Pelrine: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Story about a boy whose aunt fell through the ceiling while taking a bath when visiting for the holidays | aunt, bath, ceiling collapse, naked, older woman |
| Trixie Little: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Granddaughter learns that her grandfather is a nudist | beard, grandpa, naked, Nudist, Santa |
| Sarah Achenbach: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Story about a woman who loves christmas with a passion and married someone whose parents did Christmas just so wrong | annual present wrapping, Christmas, gift wrap, love, mother in law, obsessions, sleigh ride |
| Bridget Cavaiola: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Story about always wanting to play Mary in the Nativity play | Barbie, Cabbage Patch kid, Catholics, Christmas, family, little sister, Nativity |
| Therese Lynch: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Story about how a grandmother uses mouth-to-mouth to rescucitate a family pet bird. | bird, Christmas, CPR, dating, mothers, pets |
| Presscott Gaylord: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each Story about family videotaping Christmas every year. Prescott rebelled by filming himself naked with a santa hat covering his wang. | Christmas, family, home videos, naked, penis, santa hat, staging, tradition, VCR |
| Jim Magruder: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Stories About the Happiest Time of the Year Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each | CAN'T USE |
| Josh Granger: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about how a group of friends were affected by a shark attacked in NC summer 2001. One friend died and another lost his leg. | beach, break-ups, death, friends, North Carolina, ocean, shark attack, signature coral reef, travel |
| Tim Paggi: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about how his younger brother wet the bed and crouched in the corner, scaring him out of sleep. (the way he tells it is very unclear). | Catholic school, creativity, disembodied heads, golum, little brothers, nightmare, over active imaginations, scared of the dark |
| Charlie Wilhelm: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about how a wiseguy became a FBI informant | Baltimore, crooks, FBI, murder, reporter, straight, wise guy |
| Brian Flanagan: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Firefighter who has fear getting up to a burning building, before he even gets to the people he has to rescue | burning, fear, fire, heavy suit, highrise, ladder, poverty |
| Mark Eisendrath: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Surviving a plane crash in the jungle and making the experience into an artistic passion | burning, family, fire, jungle, plane crash, survival, wood |
| Femi “the dry fish”: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about a man who grew up in London/Nigeria and went through the foster system. Only thing he loved was comic books. Suicidal as a teen. Went to a party | comics, fighting, guns, London, Nigeria, suicide |
| Mike Subelsky: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about failing during Navy Seal training week | defecation, male, military, San Diego, Seals, swimming |
| Herman Williams: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Montel Williams’s brother. Story about how he was a talk show producer who did a show about interracial couples to get rating up. | black, diversity, Montel Williams, racism, reality talk show |
| Tracy Wahl: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. story about how a young Tracy in her 20s befriends an eccentric woman in her 80s and they start attending philosphical meetings in DC together | aging, DC, eccentric, philosophical society |
| Cranston Dize: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. story about being a 10th grade english teacher in a Baltimore City Public School, reflecting on students he’s lost to gun violence. | Baltimore City Public Schools, English, student, teacher |
| Avi Decter: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Story about how his son wanted to bring a kitten to school for show and tell. | father, kitten, show and tell, son |
| Jael Freedman: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Story about how a mean girl in 8th grade told a lie that Jael slept with 15 guys on the football field so Jael stopped going to school all together, | drop out, mean girl, playground, slut shaming |
| Brenda Wolf Smith: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Grew up in a residencial school in PA for special needs kids. | Downs Syndrome, PA, residencial, special needs |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Fitzgerald: Summer Camp Stories | March 10, 2016 | Story about being a city kid, going to nature camp, and learning about taxidermy. Pretty graphic and she drops some f bombs | ||
| Anna Grothe: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | Woman gets into three accidents in a week. | ||
| Anna Grothe: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | Woman gets into three accidents in a week. | ||
| Anna Rhodes: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Brother wanted a horse for Christmas and got a saddle | ||
| Anna Szapiro: The One That Got Away | September 14, 2023 | |||
| Anne Costlow : It’s Complicated | April 5, 2014 | |||
| Anne Mannix: Animal Tales | September 22, 2008 | Story about her childhood cat named Sugar Bear eating her new pet named Tiny Fluffy Chicken. | ||
| Anne Roberts: School Daze II | September 11, 2014 | |||
| Anne Thomas: Mistakes were made | March 31, 2014 | |||
| Anne: Password, please! | June 25, 2015 | |||
| Annette March Grier: The Giving Life | November 13, 2013 | |||
| Annie Marshall: Stoop at Loyola | March 1, 2017 | Father sick in hospital reminder her of horror movie 7 | ||
| Anonymous: Invisible Labor | October 15, 2020 | story about being a no touch escort | ||
| Anthony Watters: Unmasked | March 10, 2021 | story about starting a exercise company for the black community | black community, exercise, health, poverty | |
| Antoinette St. Claire: Movers and Shakers | March 4, 2020 | Integrated an all-white girls public high school in Chicago | brown v. board, Chicago, girls, segregation, trade school | |
| Anton Eckman: Catastrophe! | November 6, 2019 | home school | ||
| Antonio: The Stoop Says “I do!” | June 9, 2011 | Quick tid bit about a man and his expererience with lobe-married on april 1st | april fools day, love, marriage | |
| Anupam Manish: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | |||
| Aphonso Mayo: I Did it My Way | November 1, 2018 | story about overcoming obstacles due to poverty and health and being seen for who he is and not the color of his skin/these obstacles | black, college, fatherhood, football, grandmother, grandson, heart surgery, HIV, poverty, Stevenson | |
| April Kersey: A World inside a City, II | May 4, 2012 | |||
| April Rejman : O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| April Rejman: Haunted | October 18, 2010 | |||
| Aran Keating | February 21, 2026 | |||
| Arcinda Edwards: Ch-ch-changes | March 13, 2012 | |||
| Ari Jacobson: Friends and Frenemies | March 9, 2017 | Gerstrung, friend won 1 million dollar lottery | ||
